The City watchdog is clearing the way for millions of buy-to-let landlords and flat owners to claw back billions of pounds lost in secret building insurance commissions. Leaseholders will be defined as customers of buildings insurance under new rules planned by the...
A recent report has shown that there was a significant rise in the number of lots in property auctions. The residential property sector was particularly busy with lots offered up almost 45%, as the recent hike in interest rates and the introduction of yet more...
A landlord in Rochford let a property previously deemed premises unfit for human habitation and a prohibition notice under the provisions of the Housing Act 2004 section 20 and 21 had been served in March 2022. In May 2022 the council received information that persons...
The Mail Online has run a report that more than 100 tenants are registering on average at each lettings agency branch, ten times the number of available properties, new figures reveal. It can be seen here, and comments on a report from Propertymark, who said there was...
Renting platform Goodlord has launched a manifesto calling on the Government to rapidly step up its support for the under-pressure lettings industry. The manifesto, called Renting Done Right, has been created following focus groups and roundtables with more than 1,500...
A landlord was found to be in a bad state of disrepair by Havering Council, admitted numerous breaches of house in multiple occupation (HMO) management regulations at Romford Magistrates Court earlier this month. He also pleaded guilty to failing to licence the...
A Reading landlord appealed against a penalty notice issued by the local council’s private sector housing team in July 2022, after he committed an offence under the Housing Act 2004 of having an unlicensed HMO at his property in the town. The council’s penalty notice...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has claimed that billions of pounds in rent, including more than a billion pounds from housing benefit, is ending up in the pockets of private landlords who are letting dangerous, cold or dilapidated homes across England, calling it a...
Social housing tenants in seven cities are to be offered a place on a Government-funded training scheme aimed at helping them hold their landlords to account. Launched today, the £500,000-backed Four Million Homes programme will offer free advice on addressing damp...
Bright Blue, the independent think tank for liberal conservatism, and Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, have published an essay collection, Home advantage: a new centre-right vision for housing, with 16 contributions from top MPs and thought leaders –...
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